Priedēkļa un adverba atbilsme konstrukcijā „bezpriedēkļa verbs + adverbs” latviešu valodā
Correspondence of prefix and adverb in construction “unprefixed verb + adverb” in Latvian

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to actualize the construction “unprefixed verb + adverb” like pirkt nost ‘lit. buy away’ which has been little treated in the Latvian aspectology, but can be observed frequently in the spoken language, to analyze the property of its use and function, and also to provide its aspectual characteristics. As opposed to the “ordinary” construction where the verb denotes a physical action (iet iekšā ‘lit. go in’), the paper sheds light on such construction like pirkt nost where the verb denotes less physical action and forms besides the aspectual opposition a morphosyntactic triad: pirkt – nopirkt – pirkt nost.There may be various adverbs in the constructions, in other words, the constructions are formed from various prefixed verbs. The adverb attested most frequently is nost ‘away, off’, whose semantics corresponds to the prefix no-. The adverb replaces the prefix which widely perfectivizes verbs, forming the aspectual opposition and assigning to the action the meaning of singleness and completeness, less often, some lexical meanings as well. In the constructions the borrowed verbs are widely represented, too. The constructions are often attested with the particle tik in the modally marked moods such as imperative and debitive and also in conjuction with the particle lai, which overall emphasizes the utterance both expressively and pragmatically. The greater part of examples are found in informal texts like Internet comments and blogs. From a formal point of view, the construction can be regarded as imperfective, but it can also function rather as perfective prefixed verb due to the adverb replacing the prefix.In the end, some disputable topics are briefly provided for the further research: 1) degree of the semantic correspondence of prefix and adverb, 2) influence of derivative competence of the prefix upon the possibility to form the construction, 3) interface of the grammatical categories in the use of the construction, 4) differenciation of the adverb used as element of the construction and the adverb used as independent lexeme. adverbs; priedēklis; konstrukcija; aspekts; semantiska atbilsme

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